Window-sash holder.



0. M. EDWARDS.

I WINDOW SASH HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 5, 1911.

Patented 0013. 28, 1913.

WITNESSES:

INVENTOR B 62 1/, I W ATTORNEYS urn sra'rns ATEN rrro OLIVER M. EDWARDS, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

wINnow-sAsH HOLDER.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLIVER M. EDWARDS, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful lVindow-Sash Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object the production of a particularly simple and eflicient sash holder; and it consists in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention reference is had to the accompanying drawing in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure ,1 is a front elevation of a portion of a window sash, partly broken away, pro vided with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the window and frame therefor, the section cutting the lower sash on line AA looking to the right, Fig. .1. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the sash holder.

I have here shown my invention as embodied in a railway car window having a sash which is adapted to be raised by a spring roller; and in the drawing 1 is the window frame.

2 and 3 are, respectively, the upper and lower sashes of the window, the upper sash being usually tationary, and the lower sash being movable from its closed posit-ion by a spring roller 4 connected to the lower sash 3 by chains as the chain 5, the roller a operating to raise the window upon the release of suitable mechanism normally holding the window down.

In the illustrated embodiment of myinvention a sash holder is located near each side edge of the lower sash, and a description of one of such sash holders will be sufficient for both.

The sash holder comprises a support or casing 6 and a spring-pressed arm 7 carried by the support or casing, the support 6 extending into a suitable recess 8 opening through the edge face of the lower sash and through the front face thereof.

The support or casing 6 is formed of sheet metal and consists of opposite substantially parallel side members or plates 9 and 10 and a bottom member 11 connecting the side members, one of the side members, as the side member 9, being normally arranged substantially flush with the edge face of the window sash and provided at its ends with means of attachment as perforated ears Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 5, 1911.

Patented Oct. 28, 1913.

Serial No. 631,382.

12 through which screws 13 are passed into the sash at points above and below the re cess 8, said ears 12 extending beyond the ends of the member 10. I-Ioweverthe casing may be secured in position in any other suitable manner.

The side 9 is also formed with a cutout 14 opening through the edge thelrleof opposite to the stop 15 for the lower sas 3.

The spring-pressed arm is bifurcated and the opposite bifurcations or plates thereof .are pivoted at corresponding ends at 16 between the sides 9 and 10 of the casing or support 6 and remote from the recess, the major portion of one of the bifurcations or plates of the spring arm 7 being located contiguous to the inner face of the member 9. The spring 17 for said arm 7 encircles the pivot pin 16 and opposite end portions of the spring bear respectively against the bottom 11 of the support 6, and a pin 18 connecting the bifurcations of the arm 7.

The arm 7 carries .a spindle 19 at'its free end on which is mounted a pressing element or roller 20 for pressing against the stop 15 and holding the sash tight, and one of the bifurcations or plates of said arm 7 is formed with the offset portion 21 at its free end whichis deflected into alinement with the edge of the plate 9 and enters the cutout 14; when the arm 7 is pressed within the support or casing 6, the outer face of the offset portion being flush with the outer face of the side 9;

Owing to the ofiset portion 21 and the cutout 14, an end faceof the roller 20 is located in substantially the plane of the inner face of the plate 9, and said roller exerts its pressure as near the edge of the sash as possible, and also permits the sup port 6 to be formed comparatively narrow without decreasing the bearing surface of the roller.

What I claim is:

1. A window sash holder comprising a support, having a side plate, the support being adapted to be secured to the window sash with the side plate substantially flush with one of the outer faces of the sash and said side plate being formed with a cutout, and a spring pressed arm carried by the support and having an offset portion at its free end extending into the cutout and bearing means carried by the portion thereof in the cutout whereby the bearing means is of maximum width and located close to the edge of the sash, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A window sash holder comprising a support, and a spring pressed arm pivoted to the support, the support including a side plate formed with a cutout and being adapted to be secured in the window sash with such side plate substantially flush with one of the outer faces of the sash, and the arm having an offset portion at its free end extending into the cutout, and a roller carried at the free end of such arm, so that the roller is of maximum width and is located close to the edge of the sash, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. A sash holder comprising a plate designed to be attached adjacent its opposite ends to a sash and having a recess intermediate its ends opening out through one of its edges, a second plate pivotally connected adjacent one end to the first-named plate at a point remote from said recess, the major portion of the second plate being located contiguous to the face of the first-named plate, and said second plate having an end portion deflect-ed into alinernent with the edge of the first-named plate and arranged to enter the recess in the first-named plate in one position of the second-named plate, a pressing element carried by the secondnamed plate, said element having an end face located in substantially the plane of the inner face of the first-named plate, and a spring tending to force the free end of the second plate away from the first-named plate, substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. A sash holder comprising a support having substantially parallel side walls, and a connecting wall, one of said side walls having a recess therein opening out through one edge of the same and having end portions extending beyond the corresponding ends of the opposite side wall and provided with openings for the reception of means for securing the support to the sash, and a pressure member comprising side plates pivotally mounted at corresponding ends between the side walls of the support, one of said side plates having a laterally deflected part disposed in alinement with said recess and designed to occupy the same, a pressing element mounted between said deflected portion and the corresponding end of the other plate of the pressure member, and a spring interposed between the support and the pressure member for forcing the pressing element away from the support, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

5. The combination with a sash having a recess opening out through contiguous side and edge faces thereof, of a supporting plate secured to the edge of the sash at points above and below the recess therein and having an edge arranged substantially coincident with said side face of the sash, said plate having a recess therein opening out through the last-named edge thereof, a pressing element, and a carrying plate having a part arranged in the plane of the edge of the supporting plate and designed to enter the recess therein, and a major part movable within the recess in the sash, and with a face in close juxtaposition to the inner face of the supporting plate and pivotally connected thereto, and a spring tending to force the pressing element away from the support, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 2d day of June 1911.

OLIVER M. EDWARDS.

itnesses WM. A. Ln Benn, Gno. lV. Goorns.

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